The recent swoon has had one unintended benefit: The Clippers have quietly moved into the No. 8 position for the June draft. This morning, they stand only one game behind Philadelphia for No. 7, and two games behind Detroit for No. 6. What does this mean? So far as odds of winning the lottery, the b[...]

How do you begin to assess a team that’s abdicated any sense of accountability on the defensive end of the floor? Sacramento is able to conjure up whatever it wants in the first half, putting up 63 points on 47 possessions (134.0 efficiency). Early on, they shred the Clippers in the pick-and-r[...]